Art Gallery Exhibition Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Los Angeles Southwest College has been invited to participate in a Southern California–wide exhibition organized by Professor Erika Hirugami, MA, MAAB, Phil., Curatorial Director of FotoSoCal.
This expansive photography exhibition brings together several community colleges across the region, including Long Beach, Chaffey, Santa Monica, and Pasadena City College, with LASC proudly among them. The Opening will be October 2nd 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Below is more information on featured artist Damon Casarez.
Damon Casarez’s exhibition My Name’s Not Damien explores memory, identity, and assimilation through staged photographs influenced by a documentary aesthetic. Rooted in his upbringing as a fourth-generation Mexican American in suburban Los Angeles County, Casarez reconstructs childhood memories that are humorous, humiliating, or haunting. Drawing on lived experience, family archives, and speculation, the work reflects on cultural loss, belonging, and identity fragmentation shaped by suburban migration. Mundane domestic objects—a tortilla mask, a garden hose, a folded flag—become charged symbols of memory. Blurring fact and fiction, Casarez invites viewers to consider how personal and collective histories are remembered, reshaped, and mythologized in the ongoing formation of identity.
Damon Casarez
L.A. Based Photographer
Instagram: damon_c
www.damoncasarez.com
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